This art work is inspired by a painting of Eugène Delacroix “Indian bitten by a tiger”. The idea is to take the theme of “The tigritude” given by the Nigerian litterature nobel price Wole Soyinka, in 1986, who declared : “The tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he jumps on his prey and devores it.” (W. Soyinka, Kampala, 1962).

That was a response to the theme of the “negritude” given by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Cesaire. Both were thinking that it was not enough to claim, that we should act ; The negritude as people want to impose it looks like a bitch which hangs around on the street. When she sees a suspect coming toward her, she goes away in the enclosure of her owner and then, she barks.
It is about taking that “Tigritude” against the essentialism of the “Negritude”. The problem with the word of Soyinka is that, there is no tiger in Africa!